There are ~400k Facebook users on iPhone with their current location set to San Francisco. If you ask 100 of them what parking apps they know of, 1 might mention Parking Surfer. Even with a small sample of users exposed to this experiment, we can say with 100% certainty peer-to-peer ...
Earlier this week Groupon reported quarterly earnings that missed the mark. Investors can find plenty to be upset about in Andrew Mason's final 10-K as CEO of GRPN. The problems facing Groupon's next CEO aren't new nor are they specific to the discounting model. The ...
As previously blogged, the business model canvas is far superior to writing a business plan in the very early stages of idea and product development. This is the very first version of the business model canvas ...
By now, you've most likely seen the most viewed YouTube video of all time. Love it or hate it, we'll hear about Gangnam Style for years to come. We should learn from the well-conceived product, the artist's distribution network, and incredible momentum that propelled the South ...
In the not-so-distant past, thousands of companies popped up peddling PDFs called daily deals. It was a modern day gold rush. These new sites would ask users to provide personal information in exchange for access to a bonanza of deals from local merchants and Alibaba sourced merchandise. The result: a ...
The problem is well known: parking sucks. We have an idea of what our ideal product looks like based on successful apps in the collaborative consumption space. The first step is to formulate a business model hypothesis to test with real customers. The demand-side of our market seems like a given: ...
Woody Allen: A Documentary opens to the iconic filmmaker saying, "Everything you write is great. Everything. But when you have to take it out and do, then reality sets in." Looking to waste time? Spend the rest of the day thinking about what ...
Less than a year ago I started testing a collaborative consumption concept. Everyone was doing it. Airbnb was becoming a household name. By January 2012, the most well-known "community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world" was growing 500% YoY. ...
Dot IO is the Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) representing the British Indian Ocean Territory. Today, the six atolls that make up the territory, found halfway between Africa and Indonesia, are inhabited by British and US military personnel. The popularity of dot ...
It's time to convert off-the-cuff labs dot com into something useful. Playing around in a scroll path sandbox is fun but has limited application. A portfolio/blog hybrid makes for the perfect platform to let ideas, how-tos, experiments, and analytics flow. Why not pass along some prototyping tricks ...
